Quotes about writ
writing feelings three
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to. Lawrence Clark Powell
writing doe language
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
writing thinking expectations
We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
writing stories world
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one... Lawrence Block
writing want pages
I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.
writing thinking next
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
writing lyric-poetry giving
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
writing unique reality
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed. Lawrence Durrell
writing neurosis energy
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
writing amy singers
I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing. Laura Mvula
writing responsibility thinking
All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground. Laura Nyro
writing mean practice
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual. Laura Riding
writing literature may
All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.
writing tools oracles
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format. Larry Ellison
writing eight actors
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it. Larry David
writing knows
You write about what you know.
writing versions
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
writing play tragedy
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly. Lady Gregory
writing thinking people
People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life. Neil LaBute
writing thinking play
It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.
writing dark giving
It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were. Neil Simon
writing play mind
I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.
writing hands may
Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.
writing knives play
[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.
writing thinking obligation
I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.
writing comedian actors
I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.
writing like-being-alone meditation
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.
writing science occupation
From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations. Marcus Aurelius
writing quality abandonment
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. Marco Arment
writing guitar issues
I'm just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I'm not writing or playing guitar or on the microphone or out on the road, I'm cleaning pots and pans or freaking out about some plumbing issue or tweeting. Marc Maron
writing opportunity want
I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.
writing thinking evolve
I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.
writing comedy moments
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.